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Article: REVIEW: Madam Butterfly.
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- Sussex Express Series (Lewes, England)
- Article date:
- June 4, 2008
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Sadness doesn't come into it. Madam Butterfly, Puccini's masterpiece, is about as gut-wrenching as it gets.
And The Russian State Opera of Siberia's rendering at the Theatre Royal, Brighton, on Thursday last week (29th) added another strange twist to the bizarre, but beautifully composed, piece.
So here we are in Brighton listening to a Siberian rendering of an Italian's work about an American in Nagasaki falling in love with and 'marrying' a Japanese geisha girl and then abandoning her, taking their young child away with his new fledgling wife.
And, of course, in true Japanese hiri-kiri tradition, Madam Butterfly aka Cio-Cio-San aka Svetlana ...